Having finished most of my Netflix queue, I’ve also polished off my at-home TBR.

Taken together, the wheel of time has turned to:

Just in case you don’t know, Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! All you have to do is grab the book you’re currently reading, open to a random page and share a few sentences from that page. But make sure you don’t share any spoilers!*

*I wish I could take credit for this introduction, but I shamelessly stole it from Heather over at bitsnbooks. To help me make amends, you should go check out her blog.

She smells smoke and knows. Fire. The glass has
shattered her bedroom window, and what she hears
is the sound of something burning beyond the
shutters. Something huge. The neighborhood.
The entire town.

In Retrospect

I gave Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 4 stars.

The book was well-written and engaging; however, I deducted points for three things:

Mrs. Clinton persists in calling the United States a democracy.

It is not – it is a democracy in a republic.

Mrs. Clinton acknowledges her faults only twice.

Everything other failing is a vast conspiracy to undermine her or her goals.

I won a copy of this ages and AGES ago and it’s been sitting around staring at me ever since. It would have been February that I got it and I’ve quite shamefully not picked it up yet. I think I’ll try and get to it next month.

Beautifully written, haunting story. There is a table is the lobby of my apartment building where residents put things they want to give away that others freely pick up. I had read a good review of All the Light We Cannot See. When a copy was left on the table I took it. After I read it I passed it on to friends who thought the book was wonderful, too.

Right now I’m enjoying reading The Boys In the Boat, a well written non-fiction story.